Happy Almost October!
So this past weekend has been pretty crazy. Super stressful and just not the most fun weekend i've had. We got a lot of work done, and we did a lot of great things, but it was just stressful. This is something that my mission has taught me thus far. How to deal with stressful situations.
So the highlight of the week was our new investigator. We got a referral from Washington Square sisters, through mission peak (the don't know the area boundaries very well) so we went and contacted him last week, and he had to cancel, so this time we met this week. We met and it was right outside of the King Library in downtown San Jose, right near a starbucks, and we sat down and started talking about his questions, he had a lot of questions about religion at this point, things like "If I don't believe will I go to hell?" and "Do you believe in the three bodies being one body or the opposite" kind of just the typical religious questions people ask about Christianity in general. We got over that pretty quickly and asked him about his life and his background. He's a programmer in Fremont, and also works for SJSU as a programmer. He is very scientific, and does not have many beliefs as far as religion go. So we talked more about the Book of Mormon and where it came from, and then we explained all of that. It was a pretty good lesson for sure, but at first he was really slow to believe, but towards the end of the lesson,we showed him how he can get his own answer from God, and not from us.We asked him to pray, and he said he has never prayed before, and if he prayed that it would be a weird feeling because he doesn't fully believe in God, I assured him that it was going to be Okay and that he would feel good afterwards. He prayed, and I think he was greatly influenced by the lesson for sure. Appointment next Saturday at the same time.
Also on Saturday we had two baptisms in our zone, one for the Moorpark/Stevens Creek sisters, and another for the Monta Vista Singles ward sisters, both wonderful baptisms, since I just became district leader, I had to interview their investigator, so we met with her at 9 am at the stake center the day before, and we had a room and had my first interview. let's say she didn't pass, that she needed to be interviewed my President Watkins.
Saturday again, we had more bad news, Wu Tao said his wife said he could not be baptized, she heard something from a coworker or classmate or something like that that mormon church was bad and that we have multiple wives. So she is pretty scared about that, so we had to deal with that, and he was not baptized this weekend like planned. It was pretty stressful.
Helena is dealing with her mom and its getting more and more crazy by the day, and just not willing to listen to Helena at al about her view or anything. It had been stressful for me even, Helena has been handling it well. We met with her on Saturday afternoon after our appointment with Sida, at the Mitsuwa Japanese market down the street from her to have some 拉面(ramen) and it was good to just talk to her in a casual setting to see how she is doing with everything. She is handling the stress very well, and doing super good. She is just worried about her mom all the time. She feels like her mom is just gone crazy, and she needs to help her keep going in her life.
It has been a super good week. Went from averaging 13 lessons to getting 25 lessons this week, with 300 contacts. Super good.
Keep praying! Thank you all for all your support!
Elder Sanchez
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